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AN influential parliamentary committee has attacked the government’s refusal to compensate workers who have lost pensions. In a report published today, the public administration committee said the government was “at best, naive, and, at worst, misleading” in its handling of the scandal. Over the past few years about 85,000 people have lost pensions as companies went bankrupt or closed schemes.

Paedophiles flee

TWO criminals serving life for child rape, John Elms, 34, and Martin Aspinall, 46, have absconded from Prescoed open prison in Monmouthshire.

Judge rescued

A JUDGE, Guy Hungerford, was rescued from a first-floor window at Reading crown court after he was accidentally locked in.

Girl found safe

NATALEIGH CROSS, 14, has been found in Athens three weeks after she disappeared from her home in Margate, Kent. A man aged 48 was arrested.